The AFL season returns and you know it’s autumn, and the schedule starts to show winter is coming. Football and subsidiary shows, series in mid-run or nearly at the end of their run. Homeland and Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight are both nearly over, and My Kitchen Rules isn’t far behind it… but April 15 looms large as the vortex of free-to-air television, with the first episodes of Dancing With The Stars and MasterChef facing off against the 2012 Logie Awards. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Two milestones should be noted for Channel 10 shows this week – NCIS celebrates 200 episodes, and The Simpsons celebrates 500 episodes, featuring Julian Assange.
MOLK PICKS
- Sunday Night – Sun 6:30pm, Ch7
- Great Barrier Reef – Sun 6:30pm, Ch9
- Young Talent Time – Sun 6:30pm, Ch10
- Great Expectations – Sun 7:30pm, ABC1
- My Kitchen Rules – Sun 7:30pm/Mon-Thu 7:35pm, Ch7
- 60 Minutes – Sun 7:30pm, Ch9
- Modern Family – Sun 7:30pm, Ch10
- The Force – Sun 8pm, Ch7
- New Girl – Sun 8pm, Ch10
- The Mentalist – Sun 8:30pm/Wed 8:35pm, Ch9
- Homeland – Sun 8:30pm, Ch10
- Fry’s Planet Word – Sun 9:30pm, ABC1
- Louis Theroux’s Wild Weekends (rpt) – Sun 9:55pm/Mon 8:30pm, ABC2
- Excess Baggage – Mon-Thu 6:30pm, GO!
- Mythbusters – Mon 7:35pm, SBS one
- Australian Story – Mon 8pm, ABC1
- Bondi Rescue – Mon 8pm, Ch10
- Four Corners – Mon 8:30pm, ABC1
- James May’s Man Lab – Mon 8:30pm, SBS one
- Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever – Mon 8:30pm 7mate; rpt 11:30pm, Ch7
- Revenge – Mon 9:10pm, Ch7
- Media Watch – Mon 9:15pm, ABC1
- Danger 5 – Mon 9:30pm, SBS one
- Q&A – Mon 9:35pm, ABC1/8:35pm AEST ABC News 24
- Person Of Interest – Mon 9:35pm, Ch9
- Happy Endings (double episode) – Mon 10:40pm, Ch7
- Bondi Vet – Tue 8pm, Ch10
- Good Game – Tue 8:30pm, ABC2
- NCIS (200th episode!) – Tue 8:30pm, Ch10
- The Office (US) – Tue 9pm, Eleven
- Parenthood – Tue 9:35pm, Ch7
- Top Gear UK – Tue 9:35pm, Ch9
- The Simpsons (500th episode!) – Wed 7:30pm, Eleven
- Woodley – Wed 8pm, ABC1
- Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight – Wed 8:30pm, ABC1
- Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation – Wed 8:35pm, Ch10
- Please Marry My Boy – Wed 9:10pm, Ch7
- Agony Uncles (series premiere) – Wed 9:30pm, ABC1
- Kitchen Cabinet (Tanya Plibersek) – Wed 9:30pm, ABC2
- Unforgettable – Wed 9:35pm, Ch9
- The Amazing Race US – Wed 10:10pm, ABC1
- Earthflight – Thu 7:30pm, Ch9
- Catalyst (series return) – Thu 8pm, ABC1
- The Straits – Thu 8:30pm, ABC1
- The Marngrook Footy Show (series return) – Thu 8:30pm, ABC2
- The Game Plan – Thu 8:30pm, ONE
- 24 Hours in Emergency – Thu 9:35pm, SBS one
- Planet America – Fri 5pm (AEST), ABC News 24
- News Exchange – Fri 7pm (AEST), ABC News 24
- Glee – Fri 7:30pm, Ch10
- QI – Fri 8pm, ABC1
- Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Fri 8:30pm, ABC1
- Last Man Standing (Brazil) – Fri 8:30pm, ABC2
- Qld State Election Results – Sat from 5pm, ABC1/Ch7/Ch9/Ch10
- Before The Game (series return) – Sat 6:30pm, Ch10/ONE
- RocKwiz (rpts) – Sat 8:35pm, SBS one
- Mad Men (double episode) – Sat 9:25pm, SBS one
BURIED TREASURE
- Dragon’s Den – Sun 7:30pm, ABC2
- Suburgatory – Sun 8:30pm, GO!
- Man V Food – Mon 7:30pm, 7mate
- Embarrassing Bodies – Mon 9:30pm, GEM
- The League – Wed 1am, ONE
- Pawn Stars – Wed 7:30pm/Thu 8:30pm, 7mate
- Hardcore Pawn – Wed 8:30m, 7mate
- Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure (rpt) – Wed 11:35pm, ABC1
- Arrested Development – Thu 8:30pm, ABC2
- 30 Rock – Thu 11:40pm, Ch7
- Snog, Marry, Avoid – Fri 8:30pm, Eleven
SECRET TV PLEASURES
- The Project – Sun-Fri 6pm, Ch10
- Compass – Sun 6:30pm, ABC1
- Whoose Line Is It Anyway? – Mon 7:30pm, ONE
- Raising Hope – Mon 8pm, Eleven
- At The Movies – Wed 10pm, ABC1
- Portlandia – Thu 9pm, ABC2
AT YOUR OWN RISK
- Grandstand – Mon-Thu 6:30pm, ABC News 24
- Alcatraz – Mon 8:35pm, Ch9
- Packed To The Rafters – Tue 8:35pm, Ch7
- The Good Wife – Wed 9:10pm, Ch10
- Grey’s Anatomy – Thu 8:40pm, Ch7
- The Footy Show NRL – Thu 9:30pm (BNE/SYD), Ch9
- The Footy Show AFL – Thu 9:30pm (MEL/ADL/PER), Ch9
- Desperate Housewives – Thu 9:4pm, Ch7
- Private Practice – Thu 10:30pm, Ch7
- Better Homes and Gardens – Fri 7:30pm, Ch7
- An Idiot Abroad 2: Karl’s Bucket List – Sat 9:30pm, Ch10
LAST CHANCE(S)
- The Biggest Loser – Mon-Fri 7pm, Ch10
- Lewis Black’s Root Of All Evil – Tue 10:25pm, ABC2
- A Gifted Man – Thu 10:30pm, Ch10
- The Graham Norton Show – Sat 8:30pm, Ch10
DO. NOT. BOTHER.
- Ringer – Mon 8:30pm, Eleven
- 2 Broke Girls – Tue 8:05pm, Ch9
- Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show – Sat 6:30pm, Ch9
- Top Gear USA – Sat 6:30pm, GO!
A great new series from from Adam Zwar – Agony Uncles – kicks off on Wed night on ABC1 9:30pm. Simply hilarious.
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries continues to deliver a great series on Friday nights on ABC1. Worth checking out on iview and each Friday night at 8:30pm.
My Kitchen Rules Runs some big episodes this week with “elimination week” coming to bear, dropping half the teams in 4 episodes. Be ready.